BOTANICAL GARDEN

Botanical garden  

Botanical Garden  is a place where there is assemblage of living plants maintained  for botanical teaching and for research purpose.

Earlier Botanical Gardens were started as physic garden for the training of medical students and for the study of medicinal plants earlier plants for grown in garden which were only of economic use.

In Indian history we have cultivation of medicinal plant and food since 4000 to 2000 BC. plants were also grown for ornamental purpose around the temple and palaces.

establishment of view ancient panicle garden

• in India the first garden was originated in Bombay in 1830 by Agricultural Society.


• In 1838 another Botanical Garden watch established  in Madras.


• Ootacamund in Nilgiri hills 


• Lloyd Botanical garden at Darjeeling 

Important botanical gardens

• Royal Botanic Garden , kew, England

The important plants which are conserved here are : tulip, Japanese Cedar ,Redwood , sweet Gum, Japanese cherries, dawn Redwood, Apple,  etc

• Indian Botanical Garden, Howrah 

This is the first Botanical Garden in topics it was founded in 1787 for some economic reasons but later on developed into a scientific institution

This garden has herbarium, central national herbarium.

Few interesting features of the garden are:

• the great banyan tree


• Palm house


• Nursery and


• few interesting shrubs entries including ornamental leguminous trees(saraca declinata, saraca indica )

• National botanical Research Institute, Lucknow

N is the founder of this garden the founder of this garden. it exists as a government horticultural garden till 1948, then it was approved as national water botanical garden it was taken over csir in 1953.